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Earth Manual: A Step-By-Step Guide to How It Works: The practical guide to Earth (4.5 billion years old) - Rilegato

David Baker

 
9780857338105: Earth Manual: A Step-By-Step Guide to How It Works: The practical guide to Earth (4.5 billion years old)
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ISBN 10: 0857338102 ISBN 13: 9780857338105
Casa editrice: Haynes Publishing UK, 2015

Sinossi

The Earth Manual explains the physical world in which we live by first setting the Earth within the context of the planetary system which orbits the Sun.

Where appropriate, the unique properties of the Earth are contrasted with those on other planets. Why for instance is Earth the only planet with highly mobile plates, why has its atmosphere been continuously changing over time since the planet formed and why has it got such a large [and only] Moon.

We will explore the reason why the atmosphere changed over time in response to the evolutionary progress of increasingly advanced life forms, examining why the origin of plants and the first trees re-set the atmospheric clocks and began to transform the Earth for ever.

We will look at how the Earth has laid down a vast storehouse of organic and inorganic matter which life has sapped in to for in its own advantage and we will explore how the adaptation of living things, from plants to animals, has created a world in a continuous state of evolution.

Finally, we will examine the forensic methods used by science to unlock secrets about the history of the Earth, explaining the tools used by scientists, geologists, biologists, botanists and zoologists to provide the knowledge which has formed the substance of this book.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dr. David Baker worked with NASA on the Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle programmes between 1965 and 1990. He has written more than 80 books on spaceflight technology and is the author of the Haynes NASA Space Shuttle Manual, International Space Station Manual, NASA Mars Rovers Manual, Apollo 13 Manual, Soyuz Manual, Rocket Manual and forthcoming Hubble Space Telescope Manual. He lives in East Sussex.

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Editore
Haynes Publishing UK
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0857338102
ISBN 13 
9780857338105
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
224
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